A little bit about me:

UX Designer with experience designing and validating complex, enterprise-grade digital products. Skilled at translating ambiguous business and technical requirements into clear user journeys, scalable interaction patterns, and actionable design solutions through research-driven UX processes. Strong collaborator with product and engineering teams, advocating for user needs while supporting business goals.

Personal and professional development lie at the core of my well-being and feeling of accomplishment. My goal for my next role is to build on my user research and product discovery knowledge and skills within a challenging, but supportive environment. I am looking for roles where I can make an impact within organizations with a mission that build meaningful products and provide services that add value.

I enjoy exploring new places and cuisines, saving memories with photographs and videos. Skiing, hiking, running, yoga and tennis keep my body active and board games keep me in touch with my playful side. I spend my free time socializing and trying new things either to gain a new skill or shift my perspective.

What I've Been doing lately:

NOV '23 - PRESENT
UX Designer @ TINQIN
  • Actively collaborating with Product and Dev teams to build an innovative Digital Identity Wallet app with a user-friendly design and functional user experience.

  • Spearheaded the user research initiative by creating and gradually improving a user testing blueprint complete with templates and guides, thus facilitating all future user research initiatives within the company.

  • Planning, creating and conducting user research tests for various products within the company ecosystem with the aim to improve usability globally as well as for specific features or user flows.

  • Consolidating, analyzing and summarizing user testing results into a comprehensive deliverable with bug fixes for the dev team, recommendations for the product team and action points to improve the UX.

  • Designed and improved patient-facing digital products within a cross-functional agile team, aligning UX decisions with management-defined OKRs and business goals.

  • Created interactive prototypes and conducted usability testing with users, translating insights into design improvements that reduced friction and supported higher conversion rates across key user journeys.

  • Collaborated closely with Product and Engineering to iteratively refine features in a regulated healthcare environment, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.

  • Co-developed a scalable Material UI–based design system, establishing consistent patterns and improving design efficiency across multiple patient- and clinic-facing products.

  • Designed mobile UX/UI and conducted user research for a sustainability-focused food waste management app, translating complex requirements into intuitive user flows and interfaces.

  • Partnered with stakeholders to define core functionality and balance usability, business goals, and product feasibility.

  • Worked within a team to design posts for social media

  • Contributed to the organization's Brand Book

  • Collaborated with designers and project managers to create wireframes, product and website designs and present them to stakeholders.

  • Worked with a design system in Figma, style guide, BEM convention in Webflow and learned to implement custom code in order to add more functionality and animations to Webflow websites.

  • Participated and led various projects for companies from different industries including gaming, web3, crypto, business and marketing

MAR '21 - MAR '22
Founder and Designer @ pastiche. thrift
  • Designed and optimized an e-commerce website through iterative UX design and usability testing, using analytics and user tracking to improve key flows and increase conversion rates and sales over two months.

  • Designed logo and on-brand marketing materials for social media and print

  • Gained valuable experience working with Instagram and Facebook Ads while growing a business Instagram account

  • Curated, photographed and showcased over 200 second-hand items in a custom Wordpress website

JUL '20 - MAR '22
Freelance Web and Graphic Designer
  • Worked with several clients, including construction companies, bakeries, menstrual cups, manufacturers and resellers, to create branding and website design

  • Gained experience pitching clients and presenting designs, working with Wordpress and Elementor and developed my photography and graphic design skills

  • Learned how to work with Adobe XD, experimented with After Effects to create custom Lottie animations and further developed my skills in Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro

AUG '18 - JUL '20
Web and Graphic Designer @ BangBuyer
  • Designed and developed mobile landing pages in Adobe Muse for various FMCGs

  • Worked with the sales team to determine customer pain points and improve webpage usability

  • Closely collaborated with marketing team to create engaging visuals for social media including banners and videos for Facebook and Instagram

DEC '24
UX Deliverables by NNGroup
  • Successfully completed the course with a 97% score on the course exam

  • Eye-opening overview of various types of UX deliverables and how to properly deliver the right content to the right stakeholders to get maximum buy-in.

SEP '17 - FEB '18
Design, Creative and Visualisation Program @ SoftUni Sofia
  • Completed the introductory program to design, which included completing a project at the end of each module

  • Modules included:
    Graphic Design with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
    UX/UI Design
    Video Editing with Premiere Pro and After Effects

  • I gained a solid understanding on how each of the software programs work and what each field of design entails, which later guided me in my career choice

OCT '11 - JUN '14
BA Management with Marketing @ University of Exeter
  • Graduated with a 1st class honors with Italian

"Mili for me is my ultimate warrior. From the first day she came to Stan Vision, she had to work on a UX /UI of an app without having any previous knowledge of the client's business field. She was worried but at the end of the day, she delivered a product that the client loved from the first iteration and she did that before the deadline. The next 2 projects she got were almost with the same scenario - a game UI (she never worked on such a project before that) and Webflow development project, where she wasn't confident in her abilities yet. But again she delivered and she did even more than what was expected from her. Since we started working together she has grown so much and I see that this is only the beginning for her, because she has the mindset of a winner. There is nothing she can't find the solution for. And as a person, she is the kind of coworker that is always ready to jump in with ideas even if she is not working directly on a particular project. My communication with her is a pleasure. She has a way to make everything look so easy while staying professional and bringing incredible ideas to the table. That's why it's always fun working together and I know that can definitely rely on her every single time."
Yana Pancheva
Project Manager
"Milka is a very devoted hard-working person, has a great attention to detail and works well in a group. She is very balance and positive, and always seeks for equilibrium in a team environment. Milka has great skills in Graphic Design and has continued developing them over the years. Today she is a well-established Graphic Designer and Marketer with a solid record behind her. I would recommend working with Milka because she will over-deliver and put all her efforts in delivering her best work.Milka is a very devoted hard-working person, has a great attention to detail and works well in a group. She is very balance and positive, and always seeks for equilibrium in a team environment. Milka has great skills in Graphic Design and has continued developing them over the years. Today she is a well-established Graphic Designer and Marketer with a solid record behind her. I would recommend working with Milka because she will over-deliver and put all her efforts in delivering her best work."
Milena Alexova
Digital and Growth Marketing Consultant